And everyone clapped
fuck off and let us have a little optimism. shits bad enough without some doomer debbie downer trying to suck the single iota of wholesome energy out of a post regardless of whether it’s real or not.
This is toxic positivity, which is toxic.
Anyway, I gave half of my last sandwich to a homeless guy yesterday. Then later it turned out he was a billionaire and he appointed me to be CEO of his factory. And you’re an asshole if you dispute that story, somehow.
it’s only positive if you’re both not male and not white.
otherwise you’re just perpetuating the patriarchy and you should have gave that sandwich to a more oppressed homeless person
yeesh, seems like that struck a nerve. calm down
Please stop. You’re going to make me cry and I’m standing right in front of the croissant tray.
Maybe you’ll get a free cake!
its false hope though
The placebo effect exists for a reason. Also, smiling makes you happier.
yeah, clearly the answer to climate change and other massive social problems is for us to just smile more.
just like my parents used to tell me i should be happy for all they did for me, while they systematically abused me… lol
Yes that’s exactly the same…
If I ever see ICE kidnap someone I’ll try to remember to yell out to them, “remember to smile it’ll make you happeir!!”
that’s a false equivalency and you know it.
How so? Do people getting abducted by ice not need cheering up? If they smile it will make them happier. And then I’ll make a post about it online so everyone knows how good I am.
wtf. you are just stirring shit. very obviously this does not apply to personal emergencies.
why am I even replying, you know full well what you are doing…
The best charity doesn’t look like charity
It’s so depressing that we live it social structures where this poverty is possible.
We
Should
Do
Better
what social structure has ever existed where such poverty doesn’t exist?
other than the one in your head.
right there in front of the croissant tray
The FUCKING croissant tray.
Whether it’s true or not is beside the point. It’s plausible, that’s enough. It’s plausible, because similar things do happen all the time. People are mostly kind and thoughtful, and it’s good to be reminded of that.
You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let’s say, and afterward you ask, “Is it true?” and if the answer matters, you’ve got your answer.
For example, we’ve all heard this one. Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast and saves his three buddies.
Is it true?
The answer matters.
You’d feel cheated if it never hapened. Without the grounding reality, it’s just a trite bit of puffery, pure Hollywood, untrue in the way all such stories are untrue. Yet even if it did happen–and maybe it did, anything’s possible–even then you know it can’t be true, because a true war story does not depend upon that kind of truth. Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. For example: Four guys go down a trail. A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast, but it’s a killer grenade and everybody dies anyway. Before they die, though, one of the dead guys says, “The fuck you do that for?” and the jumper says, “Story of my life, man,” and the other guy starts to smile but he’s dead.
That’s a true story that never happened.
god i hated that book.
What didn’t you like? I don’t remember too much about it (we had it for like 9th grade English) but I thought it was a good read.
people are mostly kind and thoughtful to people they identify with and think who are part of their tribe. they want to help ‘good people who are struggling’
they are most cruel and nasty to people who they don’t feel this way about. what do you think the owner would have done if the customer had been a black man vs a white woman?
statically, the variance in how they’d be treated is fucking insane. and you’d have comments here vigoriously defending her right to feel afraid/threatened/alarmed, instead of sympathetic and giving.
This reveals more about you rather than making any kind of point.
yes, anyone who mentions bad things happen is a bad person, clearly.
if only we every thought happy thoughts, nothing bad would ever happy and we’d all be perfect people.
must be nice to live in such absolute world wherever everyone who isn’t you is the problem. and the facts of a objective reality don’t exist.
we should also kill all sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, because their research is negative or something
I bought a homeless looking woman lunch on my card a few weeks ago, because I didn’t have any cash to give her. Does me telling my family how good it made me feel cheapen the act? I’d like to hope not, because from my eyes it’s not self congratulatory, it’s sharing something small they were able to do for another person because it makes them happy. I don’t get the negativity in these threads.
You just told all of Lemmy about it. That woman is now hungry again and it was all for nothing :(
“You didn’t completely change that person’s life and solve all of their problems forever, so you’re just a performative, egotistical, self-fellating waste of time and I hate you because there is no greater reward or provided innate comfort for continuing to survive and suffer the aspects of life in general!” - You.
I didn’t think it was very funny
That’s ok
Yeah let’s all stop showering, sleeping, and eating because its just gonna need to be done again.
Hey friend. I had these thoughts. Generalized Anxiety Disorder with a hearty side of CPTSD and clinical depression was the diagnosis.
Chunk that shit.
I have no idea what you’re on about
You claim that because the woman would be hungry again, the action was meaningless.
We all get hungry again. It doesn’t diminish that we ate before. Or that we must eat again, even though we just ate.
I am drawing a line between this fatalistic black and white thinking of “well then it’s pointless” to my own experience with mental illness.
Chunking is a cognitive technique which orders information or tasks into smaller segments in order to avoid being overwhelmed.
Its a joke bro
That’s all I see
Great my eyes are all watery, whos chopping onions?!?!?
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
The good old orphan crushing machine
Not thank you for the cake, thank you for making my mommy happy 😀 what a story. Even the cake stood up and clapped.
They’ve improved the ending over the last version of this I read.
What’s was the prior ending? O.o
“Condoms are under the sink”
$100%
I don’t recall exactly, but I’m pretty sure that the thank you card is a new addition.
“…and they all clapped!”
Heh, “She had walked here”, and that’s a sign of poverty. Tell me you’re American without saying you’re American.
Walking there in the rain with shoes that absorb water is, even in places without the car culture of the US.
Or it’s a sign of lack of planning, but that doesn’t fit as well with the rest of the situation.
Or an advertisement for a certain popular YouTube shoe company
Well sure, but given the community, I’m commenting under the assumption that this is genuine.
actually had me until the last part
I don’t know if a world in which this is fake is better or not
Don’t say it more. America, freedom country ?
Today, you. Tomorrow, me.
I joined this site to get away from the reddit f*ggotry.
Buddy you can’t get away from the mirror
Whoever cross-posted this to orphancrushing@lemmy.world is a sick individual. Much respect.
I love that asterisk. Who’s it for? How many people are ok with that word but only if it’s censored
Pick a side!
I love it!
In my country, thered be a line of people asking for uneven cakes the day after.
